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20/01/2006
Irish Book Awards shortlist announced
The Irish Book Awards shortlist has been announced. 18 nominees were shortlisted in the three categories, of fiction, non-fiction and children's books, the winners of which will be announced on 1 March at an awards ceremony in the Royal Yacht Club, Dún Laoghaire.
The Irish Book Awards 2006 were open to all Irish authors who had a book published in 2005.
The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year offers €10,000 to the winner and sees Booker prize winning novel the Sea by John competing against fellow Booker longlisted book This is the Country by William Wall. Also shortlisted in this category are Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird, Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack, The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch and Nothing Simple by Lia Mills.
Memoir by John McGahern is shortlisted in the Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year alongside Fintan OToole, David McWilliams and Fergal Keane.
Kate Thompson's Whitbread category winning book, The New Policeman, features in the competition for the Dublin Airport Authority Irish Childrens Book of the Year.
The total prize fund for the Irish Book Awards is €22,500. Last years winner of the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year award was Havoc by Ronan Bennett.
Shortlist:
The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year
The Sea by John Banville (Picador)
Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird (Fourth Estate)
Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack (Cape)
This is the Country by William Wall (Sceptre)
The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch (New Island)
Nothing Simple by Lia Mills (Penguin Ireland)
The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Memoir by John McGahern (Faber & Faber)
White Savage by Fintan OToole (Faber & Faber)
In the Dark Room by Brian Dillon (Penguin Ireland)
The Popes Children by David McWilliams (Gill & Macmillan)
James Connolly by Donal Nevin (Gill & Macmillan)
All of these People by Fergal Keane (Harper Collins)
The Dublin Airport Authority Irish Childrens Book of the Year
Second Fiddle by Siobhan Parkinson (Puffin)
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson (Random House)
Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle (Simon & Schuster)
Bill and Fred by John Quinn (OBrien)
Snakes Elbows by Deirdre Madden (Orchard Books)
Up the Wooden Hill by Sam McBratney (Harper Collins)
Bibliofemme Reviews:
The Sea by John Banville
This is the Country by William Wall
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